State news briefs

Police identify father, son in creek drownings

PHILADELPHIA -- Police in Philadelphia are identifying the father and son who drowned in a creek in Fairmount Park.

They said 13-year-old Jordan Luciano was swimming Friday in Wissahickon Creek when he started having trouble in the water.

Authorities said his father, 41-year-old Pete Luciano, tried to help him, but both soon disappeared under the water.

Police said they were unresponsive when they were pulled from the water and later pronounced dead.

The drownings occurred as siblings looked on at a spot known as Devil's Pool, near the Valley Green Inn in Fairmount Park.

DA: Off-duty officer involved in bar shooting

BLOOMFIELD -- Authorities said an off-duty Pittsburgh officer is being investigated in the fatal shooting of a 56-year-old man during a bar fight.

The Tribune-Review said the officer is not being identified in the 2:30 a.m. shooting Sunday in Bloomfield.

The officer has been on medical leave since 2010.

The Allegheny County District Attorney's Office said a witness reported that he was fighting with Shawn Evans of Bloomfield before Evans was shot and killed at Condrins Tavern.

Spokeswoman Diane Richard said the officer is not being charged pending a review.

3 people burned in food tent at festival

BETHLEHEM -- Three women serving Malaysian cuisine were burned Saturday in a cooking accident at a street festival in eastern Pennsylvania.

The women were working in a food tent at VegFest in Bethlehem when a fire broke out, setting the tent ablaze. Witnesses described hearing what sounded like a gunshot before seeing flames shoot 12 feet into the air.

"We saw a woman go running by. She had flames on her shirt," Ty Carpenter, who was staffing the beer tent on the opposite side of the food court, told the Express-Times of Easton.

The women were taken to a burn center for treatment of first- and second-degree burns.

Bethlehem Fire Department officials are investigating the cause, but said the women were cooking with gas from a propane tank.

The food tent belonged to Jenny's Kuali, a Malaysian cuisine restaurant in Bethlehem.